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Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ
… that has led to the introduction of this important policy, which will reduce the appeal of tobacco products to … campaigns to encourage quitting, will heighten the new policy’s impact and maximise the chances that smokers … of best-practice media schedules to maximise the impact of policy changes. 6 7 In addition to standardised packaging, …
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Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change
… an evidence-informed, coherent mitigation and adaptation policy response to climate change. Our climate change … mitigation and adaption response to climate change Policy responses to climate change are too often separated … integrated approach covering both. Increasingly, leading policy agencies like the OECD are promoting the importance of …
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Updating the role of the state: the case of housing in New Zealand
… Housing policy is building up to be the key election issue again. In … Coalition Government came into power in 2017, one of their policy pledges was to solve the housing crisis. They … housing list. They also abandoned the previous eviction policy and moved away from using motels as emergency housing. …
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Media release: Another Havelock North? Govt undoing protections for drinking water safety
… research fellow Marnie Prickett says the Inquiry led to policy changes aimed at strengthening the protection of water … seems prophetic as the Government is proposing a number of policy changes that will weaken protections for drinking … policies. For example, after Havelock North, the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management was rewritten to …
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Beyond unhelpful dichotomies: a co-regulatory approach to protecting children from junk food marketing
… that I agree with his reflection 100%, and applied to food policy, I agree 200%. Everyone seems to ‘get’ that politics … messy, convoluted and nebulous. Then why do we assume that policy (if you believe these two things are different) is … from this hazy classification? Often we see black or white policy options — mandatory or voluntary regulation. But is it …
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Media release: Can we move to a low carbon, healthy transport system?
… Dr Shaw says the survey shows parties fall short on policy. “The scope of the challenge around reducing transport … parties have not seriously engaged with this in their policy platforms.” “The Green Party transport policy is the most promising in terms of reducing emissions …
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Expanding the Definition of Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Mindset Change to Help Achieve a Smokefree Aotearoa
… approaches commonly used in this way to mitigate harms of drug use include: Decriminalising cannabis use to reduce … [from 18.5% to 23.8%]), supports concerns that current policy has given rise to a new generation of … the basis of the above typology, we argue that smokefree policy and practice has often long deployed a harm reduction …
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Where do the parties stand? Long-term thinking & catastrophic risks
… burden falls on those living in coming decades. Short-term policy horizons also undermine NZ’s capacity to respond to … relating to rivers and flood plains. There were some policy descriptions for peace-making/demilitarisation from … sustainable jobs.” Also referred to focusing NZ “defence policy on climate change responses, humanitarian responses, …
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After the new law for smokefree cars for Kiwi kids, what next?
… for smokefree and wider health matters? Why was the policy process for the law so long? It is over 45 years since … elsewhere on such laws. 5 We know that much of the public policy process is messy and irrational. 6 In NZ, the Health … of the systemic lack of priority for children in the NZ policy-making process. 9 So what can we do about progress for …
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High regret among people who smoke reinforces strong support for smokefree legislation
… in tobacco availability, and the smokefree generation policy. In this briefing, we draw together findings from … to repeal the SERPA Act, but doing so would create a policy vacuum that fails to support the aspirations of people … young people considered the smokefree generation (SFG) policy empowering, believed it would protect their freedoms, …
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